Larry Niven
Paperback | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.96 | 99212 Users | 3298 Reviews
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| Title | : | Ringworld (Ringworld #1) |
| Author | : | Larry Niven |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | June 9th 2005 by Gollancz (first published October 1970) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred million miles long and ninety million miles in radius. Pierson's puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immense structure and have assembled a team of two humans, a mad puppeteer and a kzin, a huge cat-like alien, to explore it. But a crash landing on the vast edifice forces the crew on a desperate and dangerous trek across the Ringworld.Present Books Conducive To Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
| Original Title: | Ringworld |
| ISBN: | 0575077026 (ISBN13: 9780575077027) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Ringworld #1, Known Space |
| Characters: | Louis Gridley Wu, Teela Brown, Nessus (Niven), Speaker-to-Animals, Halrloprillalar Hotrufan |
| Setting: | Ringworld Fleet of Worlds |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award for Best Novel (1971), Nebula Award for Best Novel (1970), Locus Award for Best Novel (1971), Seiun Award 星雲賞 for Best Foreign Novel (1979) |
Rating Epithetical Books Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
Ratings: 3.96 From 99212 Users | 3298 ReviewsPiece Epithetical Books Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
Not much I can say about this. It blew my mind.In order for you to truly appreciate Ringworld you would have to mentally backtrack forty-odd years. Big Ideas in Science Fiction are a dime a dozen. Today.But in 1970?Perhaps Nivens vision upstaged his characters. Perhaps. But I could still lose myself on the ring. It fascinated me then; it fascinates me now. This novel made authors sit up and pay attention to just how big you could think if you really applied your imagination. Also, Ive spentLarry Niven takes a lot of shit. A lot. Without ever reading a word of his before I have heard him called a racist, a sexist pig and a dolt. If the racist statements attributed to him are true, well, that is deplorable but everything I can find about them is 2nd or 3rd hand and seems to be of fairly questionable authenticity. Even in the worst case I can enjoy a Roman Polanski or Woody Allen movie so I should be able to enjoy a Larry Niven book right? He is not that bad! As far as the sexism
"Read Ringworld!" she said."Read Ringworld!" he implored. "Read Ringworld you lazy muthafucka!" I chided myself. "Okay already! I'll read it. Now lay off!" other me shouted back.Larry Niven sci-fi classic is not filled with a lot of action. It's mostly about exploration, some space theory and some alien character development. By the time you're done with it, you can definitely see that this is just the tip of the iceberg, and the series that followed makes sense. I really enjoyed this, but I
Id wanted to read this because Im a fan of the Halo video games, and Id heard that it was a big influence on those. I gotta say that Id have liked it more if the Master Chief would have shown up and started chucking some plasma grenades around.Set in 2855, human Louis Wu is recruited by an alien named Nessus to go on a hazardous mission to explore a strange structure that rings a distant star. Another alien called Speaker-To-Animals from a warrior race apparently descended from some really tough
I'm always told that I have to make concessions for books written before a certain time. And I try but in this case there were just too many of the things that irk me thrown together.First off, the idea of the ringworld and the various astrophysical explanations were clever and innovative, that's for sure, but there was too much explanation going on. Characters explaining things to one another all the time. Sometimes jumping to conclusions where I had to re-read some paragraphs to make sure I
This was a blast to read. It was great, escapist, old school science fiction at its best. It's a pretty light read, with fast moving short chapters all in single narrative. The story is a classic exploration tale taking place on an alien artefact that is one of the most amazing concepts ever imagined in my opinion. The Ringworld is an enormous artificial ribbon one million miles wide with the diameter of Earth's orbit. It's basically a partial dyson sphere. "Take Christmas ribbon, an inch wide,
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